"He was very aware of the role that mass-produced photographs and texts play in giving us the scripts by which we develop our lives".
In the Welles archive at the University of Michigan a paradise for Welles fanatics, to which much new material has lately been added you can see a provisional script, by Elliot Paul, which delivers a quasi-mythic account of Armstrong's life and at the same time comments satirically on jazz's popularity among snobbish French intellectuals and "white jitterbugs".
In the Welles archive at the University of Michigan — a paradise for Welles fanatics, to which much new material has lately been added — you can see a provisional script, by Elliot Paul, which delivers a quasi-mythic account of Armstrong's life and at the same time comments satirically on jazz's popularity among snobbish French intellectuals and "white jitterbugs".
During filming, after the strike ended, Forster read a spec script by Joshua Zetumer, which he liked, and hired him to reshape scenes for the later parts of the shoot, which the director was still unsatisfied with.
And it has a polished script, by Fletcher and Danny King, which packs cherishable sarcasm into every line.
The stiffness comes in part from the script, by Charles Leavitt, which is more inclined toward homily than toward psychological nuance.
Are you stupid or what?" But the actor said the script, by William Ivory, which was filmed in 18 days, had won her over.
In 2006, Mr. Ford bought the rights to "A Single Man," the 1964 novel written by Christopher Isherwood, along with a script by David Scearce, which Mr. Ford decided to rewrite.
Working from a twisty script by Shawn and Michael Rasmussen (which, incidentally, puts the similarly themed Sucker Punch to shame), Carpenter keeps things moving along briskly, aided by the kind of stripped-down budget and tight shooting schedule that were once his forte.
Mr. Weinstein has also brought on the playwright James Graham ("This House") to do a wholesale rewrite of the "Neverland" script by Allan Knee, which he based on his play, "The Man Who Was Peter Pan".
